#takes

In this business it takes time to be really good - and by that time, you're obsolete. ↗

— Cher

#good #obsolete #really #takes #time

It's hard when you see a scene where it's raining, and we have the rain machine, and you see it for 5 minutes, but that scene takes all day to shoot, and you do it with rain, and the dry off, and go back and do it again. ↗

— Morris Chestnut

#all day #back #day #dry #go

Of course, you'll have to meet the physical and psychological demands. A space walk takes a lot of energy. ↗

— Leroy Chiao

#demands #energy #lot #meet #physical

I write in the afternoon, from about 12 until 6 or 7. I use an upstairs room as my office. Once I get going I keep at it, and it usually takes about six months from the first blank screen until 'The End.' ↗

— Lee Child

#afternoon #blank #end #first #get

Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#fabric #generations #just #once #society

The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes. ↗

— Patricia Clarkson

#five #i #i do #independent #independent films

Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

#careful #gone #intelligent #into #make

When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#certain #overtakes #repose #sense #stop

I've been accused of being unambitious, but what I do takes up every minute. I'm executive producer, I'm a writer and the host. ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#been #being #every #executive #executive producer

I do all my own make-up, it takes me 10 minutes. ↗

— Joan Collins

#i do #make-up #me #minutes #my own